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A conflict monitoring group says more than 500 people have been killed in Syria since sectarian clashes broke out at the weekend. Syrian government forces have largely pulled out of the province of Suweida, but some reports say that Syrian Bedouin fighters on Thursday launched a new offensive in Syria's Suweida province against Druze fighters. We speak to our correspondent in Damascus, and we hear from the Druze people in Syria and abroad.

Eight babies have been born in the UK using genetic material from three people to prevent devastating and often fatal conditions, doctors say. The method, pioneered by UK scientists, combines the egg and sperm from a mum and dad with a second egg from a donor woman. The technique has been legal here for a decade but we now have the first proof it is leading to children born free of incurable mitochondrial disease. We speak to a woman who lost her baby to mitochondrial disease.

Torrential rains in Pakistan's Punjab province have killed at least 63 people and injured 290 in the 24 hours since downpours started on Wednesday morning. Our reporter has the latest.

Presenter: Mark Lowen.

(Photo: A van sits packed with personal belongings, on land between Deraa and Sweida, after scores of people have been killed this week in violence in and around the predominantly Druze city of Sweida, pitting fighters from the Druze minority against government security forces and members of Bedouin tribes, in Deraa, Syria July 17, 2025. Credit: Khalil Ashawi/Reuters)